Halloween Pumpkins 2008

[amanuensis1]

So, here are the halloween pumpkins I carved for this year. And this year, I made the patterns myself:





This is the picture I began with for the faces:



Then, armed with suggestions from a tutorial website, all I did was stick it into Photoshop Elements, remove the saturation completely to make it black and white, and then I began playing with the Brightness and the Contrast settings until I got this:



And then I printed it and played about with a black ink pen for a bit.

Comments

[txilar.livejournal.com]

Woah, those are awesome! ^___^

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so happy they worked!

[erin-trinity.livejournal.com]

WOW!!!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Hee, I love transferring my obsessions everywhere.

[nakedbee.livejournal.com]

Eee! Those are so pretty! What fantastic carving skills you have!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

The logo one was supposed to be the EASY one. I messed up more on that one than either of the others!

I'll never be in the leagues with the people who do shading 'n' stuff, but that looks like it takes so long, yipe!

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Oh, they turned out GREAT! You are so creative. :-)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

DIDN'T THEY! I'm so happy!

[twigged.livejournal.com]

That is AMAZING.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I did the L first. I was so happy it was recognizable as soon as I lit it up!

[kaostic.livejournal.com]

Whoa, you're creative and this is a really neat idea!
Thanks for sharing with us! ^^ ♥

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love Halloween, so, it's fun combining my obsessions.

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

Geez louise, those are FANTASTIC!!!! Pumpkin carving is a talent, man. My only wish is that I could get that sort of thing for, like, HP convention art galleries.

Hmmm...now I wanna do reasearch into trying to preserve carved pumpkins.... XD

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin carving's just a SKILL. I started with patterns in store-bought books and just kept going! :D But I'm so glad you like, thank you!

[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

OMG, they're gorgeous!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

You sweetie, thank you so much!

[selve.livejournal.com]

These are amazing. *___* I now want to try my hand at shinigami pumpkins, but I lack both your skillz and a suitable place to display them (apartment dweller here).

What tools did you use? I'm guessing an xacto knife or razor?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

You have a perfect place to display them--LJ! :D

And I got one of those "Pumpkin Carving Kits" a few years ago, real inexpensive, you get 'em at the drugstore or Wal-Mart 'n' such around Halloween, and they have little minisaws and poky things and such. They only cost a few dollars!

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Fucking amazing, that's all I can say.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you so much!

[all-my-colours.livejournal.com]

WOW!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you!

[ithexamimi.livejournal.com]

WICKED.
*o*
I can't even carve a triangle, haha. *fails*
WOWOWOWOW.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Get those pumpkin pattern/carving kits at the drugstore; they're really easy to learn! That's what I started with! :D And thank you!

[masakochan.livejournal.com]

*_* Awesome.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thankies!

[bluestocking79.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! From one pumpkin carver to another, I have to tell you that's some excellent carving, especially considering that you developed the patterns yourself.

I'm still wibbling over what to put on mine this year. Sweeney Todd? Pirates of the Caribbean? HP characters (which ones, tbd)? I've thought about carving a D pumpkin, but I'm not sure the effect would be that great...

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I keep looking at the ones that have all the SHADING and I weep in despair. They look so time-consuming! I'll never get there. But I'm very happy to have learned to make my own!

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Holy crap those are AWESOME. I really wish I had any sort of skillz at this kind of thing, but I tend to keep away from sharp objects for the safety of everyone involved.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Actually the little saws aren't that sharp! Just poky. ^_^ And thank you!

[nami-assasin.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAA
*likes*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ellianmeir.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

I wish I had pumpkins this year. I would do something similar since I'm already practiced with carving complicated images into them; I've done so since I was...about eleven.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Ooh, if you do, I would love to see them! I'm really impressed by those who can do the complicated ones; I don't think I would have the patience to do the ones with the shading and stuff.

[mybrokenlocket.livejournal.com]

Those came out really nice! Years ago some of my neighbors had an annual pumpkin carking party. The couple hosting it were a painter and a photographer, and they had all sorts of artsy, creative friends, so the pumpkins that got turned out were amazing.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

That's a great kind of party. And there's someone to help you clean up the mess afterward!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow, that came out so well!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I was so darned happy when I lit up the first one and it looked the way I'd hoped!

[hyper-amychao.livejournal.com]

those are amazing... wow XD

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thank you so! (And I'm mesmerized by your icon. I remember those!)

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

That is so cool!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I had such fun and I'm so happy with the way they came out!

[tallulahgs]

Wow, those are brilliant - and so recogniseable!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy they are--for those of us as love the guys! :D

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

Those are so cool! I avoid pumpkin carving 'cause me + sharp things = trip to emergency room. *is jealous of carving talent*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

The tools that come with the pumpkin carver's sets aren't very sharp! Well, maybe the teensy saws. ^_^

[dreamer-067.livejournal.com]

You have seriously awesome skills. >:D I pumpkin carved... once? I failed so badly. D:

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

"Once" is when everyone fails badly! You just keep doing it more. :D

[rawrtothefifth.livejournal.com]

Ah! Those are sogood! I wish I could carve pumkins. I normally just end up cutting part of the person's face off or something so then I just get mad and stab the pumkin and hten I can't use it anymore lol

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

You would not beLIEVE the curses that come out of me when I mess up. OH. (The logo one was supposed to be the EASY one. You don't wanna know.)